The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-10-19
NEWS NOTES FOR WOMEN.

Massachusetts,.
1t takes SOS, 900, 900 to keep our ladies
in silks every year.
Pink and golden brown, black and
yellow are fashionable combinations.
Queen Victoria is writing another
book, but what about nobody knows.
Black grenadine, bunting and etamine
are worn in black or after Grape is laid
aside.
Beaded lace and silk cord gimp arc
used in the same profusion as passemen-
terie is.
Lavender and pearl undressed kid
gloves are vieing with the tan shade in
popularity.
A line of pique ribbon is still the sty-
lish finish for a dressy gown in both neck
and sleeves.
Gold OF steel beaded panels, vests, cuffs
and collars are worn on plush, velvet or
silk costumes.
Tea cloths have handsome edge of
wide marquise, as also have bed spreads
and pillow shams.
The rage for bouffant skirts is in no
way lessened, and the skirts are more nu-
merous than ever.
Gray ginghams are trimmed with white
embroidery and worn in the house for
second mourning.
Sleeves that are pulled at the top and
fit closely to the lower part of the arm
have caught the fancy of most ladies'
Miss Olivia Cobb, who is Just out of
her teens, is the belle of Athens, Ga,
and has already refused thirty offers of
marriage.
Mahogany and the various Florentine
reds will be the favorite shades for street
wear in the winter. They are certainly
warm looking.
Nine Emile Flygare- Cartin, the Swe-
dish novelist, is more than eighty years
old, and is about to publish an extensive
autobiography.
Full vests are worn with revers, collars
and cuffs of border goods, embroidery or
the portions that come for this purpose
with robe dresses.
Draped and folded vests remain
feature in most fall aud winter gowns.
Repped silk, Bengaline, and velvet will
be used for them.
Dressmakers who pleat and gather a
quantity of stuff about the dress wearer's
figure are not following the best models.
Simplicity will rule.
Mrs. Edith Kingdom Gould cut up a
SIC, 900 point d'Alencon founce, that
once belonged to the Empress Eugenie,
to trim her baby's clothes.
Beadings should be of the same tone
as the foundation, and the beads must
be so literally used that but very little
of the foundation can be seer.
Plush and tinsel stripes are on gauze
ribbons, moire has satin back and picot
edged velvet ribbons are in all of the
new evening shades for party toilets.
Annie Mercer, of Missaukee County,
Mich, promises to become giantess.
She is only in her twelfth year, and yet
she is trifle over six feet in stature.
Miss Belle Gentle astonished the volun-
teers at Kincraig, Fifeshire, Scotland, by
her wonderful skill with the rife. She
shot in ten contests and won eight first
prizes.
Narrow bands of black velvet are seen
on the sleeves of white and cream col
ored dresses. They are placed a little
below the puffings, and add much to the
appearance of the garments.
There is mistaken notion that ladies
in mourning must use white hand
kerchief with black border. A white
cambria one is quite as appropriate and
in accordance with the demands which
fashion makes.
The long straight polonaises, which
will be made of heavy materials for
winter wear, should not be caught up in
the hips, but be cut in fiat pleats behind,
sloping away at the sides to disclose the
skirt beneath, which will be entirely
concealed elsewhere.
There are more simple models for even.
ing costumes than ever. The picturesque
is more sought than last season, and
the models this season embody designs
taken from Louis IV.'s reign. The col
ors also in evening fabrics are reproduc
tions of the same epoch.
"Pinking" will come in again with 1
grand rush. 1t will be applied to ;
variety of materials and all sorts of gar
ments. Silk and wooden gowns, under
skirts, morning dresses, breakfast jack
cts, will be decorated with founces
frills, and ruchings of the material
pinked out, sometimes pleated, but NOR
! often very lightly gathered.
In tailor-made gowns smooth surface
cloths will still be used for dressy suits
! two markedly contrasting colors in on
/, costume, the lighter color for lower ski
+ and vest, the darker for the basque an
drapery. Thus serpent green over gray
and dark blue over tobacco brown
,, Jacket in the darker color. Small maj
!, ties and shoulder capes of the two colo
= in combination.
{ Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. B. Merrill, of Oal
e land, ILL.,, celebrated their diamond wee
e ding recently. He is ninety-seven yea
|. old and his wife eighty-nine, havir
n been only fourteen years old when 81
Y was married seventy-tive years ag
r They have fifteen children livinI
o ninety-four grandchildren and thirt
: five great grandchildren. All we
h nresent at the diamond wedding feast.